Chef Tam – Memphis Flyer

MEMernet: Sex Doll, Chef Tam, and Johnny Cash at the Zoo

Maybe not Memphis

By now we know the photo of the guy who took his sex doll to dinner was likely not at the Applebee’s on Union. The photo was claimed by others across the country to show their local Applebee’s, too. I mean, who wouldn’t?

Lesson from Chef Tam

Chef Tam’s Underground Cafe urged vaccines and mask-wearing for COVID-19 precautions as “the Delta variant is rising all around us.”

“There’s a strong probability that you’ll contract this virus and not recover!” Chef Tam wrote. “I love y’all real big and I wanna see what God has in store for you, but I can’t see it if we finna experience slow singing and flower bringing cause y’all tired and wanna party and wanna be out in the world!!!”

Wayback machine

Volunteer radio station WEVL FM 89.9 reminded us in a cool post last week that “65 years ago today, 24-year-old Johnny Cash took baby Rosanne Cash to the Memphis Zoo.”

Chef Tam‘s Underground Cafe is set to open in the old Imagine space on January 28th.

Owner Tamra Eddy chose that date because it’s her late father’s birthday. Her father was a chef, her grandfather a bbq pitmaster, her grandmother a baker. “It’s in me,” she says.

Underground Cafe will serve Southern classics with a gourmet flair, says Eddy. We’re talking fried ribs, mac and cheese, tacos, catfish, jerk shrimp, and peach cobbler nachos (!).

As for the name of the cafe, Eddy says initially she was going to open in a space with an underground kitchen. The name stuck, she says, because she recognized how accurate it is. “[My talent as a chef] has been hidden so long. It works perfectly for me.”

Eddy, who was the chef at the Lighthouse, began looking for a space a couple months ago. She reached out online and was led to the Imagine space. She’s currently giving the restaurant a good scrubbing and plans to hang old black-and-white images of her family to complete the homey feel.